Amid a very low success rate in recovering grabbed forest land, the environment, forest and climate change ministry has initiated a long-awaited amendment to the law for empowering the forest department to evict illegal occupants from its properties.
The environment, forest and climate change ministry reclaimed and reforested a total of 5,093 acres of forest land between August 2024 and June 2025...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has recovered 16 acres of illegally occupied forest land in Gazipur since August 5 out of a total of 90 acres...
The High Court on Tuesday stayed a controversial lease agreement involving over 8,000 acres of forest land on Sonadia Island in Cox鈥檚 Bazar, including 2,712 acres designated as an ecologically critical area...
A vast area of forestland remained grabbed by different quarters for decades but the authorities took no effective measures to reclaim the land even after the change in government...
